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OK, I found him, what do I win?

These pictures were taken by me with my cell phone @ JFK airport the night we dropped Dylan off to head for Cairo.

I couldn't resist myself.

The Perfessor

I'm a heroist, don't look it up, it is a term that I coined to describe my outlook on life. I feel that if Heroes did not exist that we would have created them. Well, not only do heroes exist, but we did create them as well. I love the Greco-Roman mythology, and the Norse Mythology as well (I enjoy others but I am more familiar with those). Perhaps this is why I was so drawn to comics when I was younger, and why those stories have stayed with me for so long.

Anyways, one of my favorite stories is about Prometheus, the Greek god who stole fire from his brethren and gave it to man. As punishment for his crime, Prometheus was chained to a rock for all eternity and had his liver torn out by a vulture every day only to have it grow back every night.

I recently came across this webtoon by Mark Weinstein that examines all of the humorous elements of this story.

This is an animation of the asteroids discovered over the last three of decades.

Round and round they go. Like Space Junk made of stone

If you click on the YouTube link itself, you can see the uncropped version with the number of asteroids summed since 1980.
I'll spoil it for you. It's over a half million.

We're not alone out there. Oh, wait. We are alone, but there's a half a million rocks out there waiting to sneak up on us and get all stony and stuff.

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Turn on the news (Faux if you must), and all you see is anti-Muslim rhetoric about the Mosque (that is not a Mosque) at Ground Zero (that really isn't ground Zero), and talking head after talking head spewing forth the most heinous bile venom about how they have no right to put up their cultural center that close to Ground Zero. Then people wonder why there is an increase incidence of violence against Muslims.

I know that we have the freedom of speech here in this country, but something about not being able to incite a riot or violence against others comes to mind. Well, thank goodness there is someone like Stephen Colbert who can put this stuff in perspective for us....

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This guy has balls. And he has to eat them.

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Okay, this blog is mainly for pop culture. If you've come for that, you are in for a treat.

Recently, two movies hit the theaters.

One, The Last Airbender was based on a amine series. When I heard that this Japanese styled cartoon was being made into a movie, I felt a bit lost. You see, I don't get cable TV. If I did, not having kids of that age, I doubt if I would have been watching Nickelodeon channel. The show was made similar to many Japanese amine shows, but specifically made for Nick. I went out, and through the wonders of Netflix Streaming, watched the first season of Avatar: The Last Airbender in nearly one sitting. It's a show meant for kids, but getting around the cloyingly sweet segments, it had a decent story to follow. The movie made from the show was saddled with child actors that had trouble not tripping over themselves and way too much exposition. The cartoon was cleaner and certainly tolerable. And that's what you'll see next.

What I'm going to show you next will be slices, not from the movie, but from the cartoon that ran on Nick.

Now, with cartoon mashups on the web, most of the time you'll get some cool soundtrack.

Not this time.

This time, it's been mashed up from another recent movie, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. Scott Pilgrim, as you all certainly know by now, was a comic book first, and then a movie made to look like it came right out of a comic book. The problem with Scott Pilgrim was it was saddled with a child-like actor who unfortunately grew up to be a larger child with the expressive palette of a potato. The success of the movie revolves around some of the really unlikely (but intentionally funny) dialogue.

Ramona's Seven Evil Exes. Love the old guy in this.

So, what this video does, is take the better bits of dialogue from the Scott Pilgrim movie and matches it with the proper action sequences of the cartoon. You'll see below that this is done to near perfection and it's worth a click.

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